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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Louis ask Emily to tell Prior when he wakes in the hospital?
(a) He love him
(b) He had to go
(c) He'll be back soon
(d) Get better

2. To what does Joe Pitt compare his heart in Act 2, Scene 9?
(a) A void
(b) A hot spike
(c) An overgrown garden
(d) A dead planet

3. Which of the following is not a symptom that Prior lists off to Louis in Act 1, Scene 8?
(a) Blacking out
(b) Protein in urine
(c) New lesions
(d) Defecating blood

4. Why, according to Joe, does he not want to have sex with Harper most days?
(a) He does not love her anymore
(b) She makes him feel small
(c) He is tired from work
(d) She is ugly when high

5. Which of the following is not a prediction Harper makes about the coming of the Millennium?
(a) The ozone layer will heal itself
(b) A new harvest will grow
(c) The Troubles will come
(d) Christ will return to Earth

Short Answer Questions

1. Of whom does Ed Meese remind Martin Heller?

2. Where is the apartment where Hannah arrives?

3. According to Louis in Act 3, Scene 7, what do he and Joe have in common?

4. Which of the following is not something Prior keeps in his bed to ward off spirits in Act 3, Scene 6?

5. In what country does Louis' Act 3, Scene 2, story of about subtle antisemitism abroad take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Prior wrestle the Angel in Act 5, Scene 1?

2. What desperate question does Louis Ironson ask Rabbi Chemelwitz?

3. Why is Joe Pitt confused by Louis' invitation to come home with him?

4. How does Hannah Pitt react to Joe's late night call to her?

5. Why does Louis criticize Joe's decision on a case that found in favor of a gay soldier?

6. How does Louis use an explanation of smell in Act 1, Scene 6, as a sexual come-on?

7. What do Prior and his two ancestral visitors in the beginning of Act 3 have in common besides a name?

8. What final pearls of wisdom does Roy provide to Joe in Act 5, Scene 4?

9. How does Louis' liaison with the Man in the Park end?

10. What is Hannah's principal concern in talking to Sister Ella Chapter in Act 2, Scene 10?

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